Every year workplaces, schools, early learning services, community groups, reconciliation groups, and people right across the country host a whole range of activities and events during National Reconciliation Week (NRW).
Check out the events below and see how you can mark NRW at an event near you.
You can also add your own event to this calendar or register your private event.
The dates for NRW are the same each year; 27 May to 3 June.
Please note: the events posted below are not the responsibility of Reconciliation Australia. If you have any questions regarding an event, please contact the organisers.
Hear from Joshua Carter (Youth Voice Coordinator) and Drew Berick (Elder Voice Coordinator), from the First People's Assembly
Hear from First Nations leaders about their work protecting Country and the role of First law and black letter law.
Celebrate NRW by streaming the NSW Virtual Breakfast and hosting your own local event concurrently.
Yarning Circle with Len Collard @ Cockburn Libaries
This Reconciliation Week our forum will focus on building economic empowerment in the Newcastle/Hunter region.
Join us to hear from guest presenter Dayle Jones about engaging Indigenous volunteers.
A community BBQ and yarn / catch up will be held at Maitland Park between 12-2pm to recognise inclusion /reconciliation.
This National Reconciliation Week, DesignInc Sydney and Nguluway DesignInc will be hosting a panel discussion centred around this year’s theme:
An engaging presentation on SA's rich history of Aboriginal Activism, featuring speakers Jacinta Koolmatrie, Haydyn Bromley and Jade Turner
A safe space to yarn about reconciliation and the 2024 NRW Theme, Now More Than Ever
A Tale of 3 Cancers: Medical research seminar outlining biological and therapeutic reasons that Aboriginal communities have poorer cancer outcomes.
Yarn with Indigenous Community Leaders, Jess Chatfield, Emily Fella, Reuben Smith & other guests.
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Paul Girrawah House has multiple First Nation ancestries from the South-East Canberra region, including the Ngambri-Ngurmal (Walgalu), Pajong (Gundungurra), Wallabollooa (Ngunnawal) and Erambie/Brungle (Wiradyuri) family groups.
Paul acknowledges his diverse First Nation history, he particularly identifies as a descendant of Onyong aka Jindoomang from Weereewaa (Lake George) and Henry ‘Black Harry’ Williams from Namadgi who were both multilingual, essentially Walgalu-Ngunnawal-Wiradjuri speaking warriors and Ngunnawal–Wallaballooa man William Lane aka ‘Billy the Bull’ - Murrjinille.
Paul was born at the old Canberra hospital in the centre of his ancestral country and strongly acknowledges his First Nation matriarch ancestors, in particular his mother Dr Aunty Matilda House-Williams and grandmother, Ms Pearl Simpson-Wedge.
Paul completed a Bachelor of Community Management from Macquarie University, and Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language, Culture and Heritage and Management from CSU.
Paul provided the Welcome to Country for the 47th Opening of Federal Parliament in 2022. Paul is Board Director, Ngambri Local Aboriginal Land Council, Member Indigenous Reference Group, National Museum of Australia and Australian Government Voice Referendum Engagement Group.
Paul works on country with the ANU, First Nations Portfolio as a Senior Community Engagement Officer
Reconciliation Australia acknowledges Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website contains images or names of people who have passed away.
